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Record W1974452510 · doi:10.1177/0096144206297144

From Miser to Spendthrift

2007· article· en· W1974452510 on OpenAlex
Richard Harris

Why this work is in the frame

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Urban History · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban and Rural Development Challenges
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismUnrestNationalismGovernment (linguistics)PopulationVulnerability (computing)Economic growthPolitical scienceEconomyDevelopment economicsEconomicsPolitical economyEconomic historySociologyPoliticsDemographyLaw

Abstract

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There is a stereotype that European powers did little to improve the housing of those they colonized. The late colonial experience of Barbados probes and challenges this view. In a poor and isolated colony dominated by conservative white planters, a miserly colonial administration had for decades done little or nothing to improve housing. Faced with local unrest and international pressure from the United States, however, and enabled by Colonial Development funds as well as a levy on sugar exports to Britain, it developed a range of government (public) housing programs in the 1940s. By 1960, the colony had directly improved housing for about 30 percent of the island's population. Its building program was efficiently run, but influenced by a rising group of nationalist politicians, its financial viability was undermined by a lax approach to rent collection. The policy shift from miser to spendthrift reflects the growing vulnerability of colonial rule.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.566
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it